Primeiro trailer de 'Os Pinguins do Sr. Popper', com Jim Carrey … … com argumento de Sean Anders, John Morris e Jared Stern. A estreia é a 16 de Junho, em Portugal. © Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger… Tags: jim carrey, penguins , trailer … newsoxy says: Jim Carrey Penguins Movie Looks Great – http://www.newsoxy.com/entertainment/ jim-carrey-penguins -movie-looks-great-21553.html
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For those of you that have purchased the next-generation of iPad, you have access to a wide range of applications that utilize the device’s camera, processor and fullscreen 1080p video output. Aside from Apple’s iPad 2 apps such as iMovie and FaceTime, we’ve rounded up 5 third-party apps specifically designed or tweaked for your new Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Next Web Discovery Date : 25/03/2011 10:12 Number of articles : 4
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Director to curate four night season at Cornish festival with Brunel viaduct providing backdrop to outdoor screenings Even legendary Hollywood director Martin Scorsese has never had a set like this to play with – a giant screen by a river under the stars, with a backdrop of trains rumbling across a towering viaduct designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Scorsese, who is curating The Director’s Cut, a unique four-night film season at the Port Eliot Festival in Cornwall this June, clearly agonised over an opening film that would live up to the grandeur of the setting in 4,000 acres of Humphry Repton -designed parkland. Trains and clouds of steam were obviously essential ingredients, and he considered both Shanghai Express (1932), with the luminous Marlene Dietrich and Anna May Wong, or Hitchcock’s thriller The Lady Vanishes (1938). His final choice may surprise devotees of Raging Bull or Gangs of New York: his opener is Murder on the Orient Express (1974), the version directed by one of his heroes, Sidney Lumet, starring Albert Finney as Agatha Christie’s cranky Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, which he regards as a classic. He has paired it with Hitchcock’s North by Northwest (1959), which ends with one of the deathless cinema metaphors when Cary Grant, having battled the baddies on the face of Mount Rushmore, pulls his new wife to him on a train, and the scene cuts to the train itself speeding into a tunnel. It was a considerable coup for one of the summer’s most eclectic festivals to persuade Scorsese to take a break from editing his first 3D film, The Invention of Hugo Cabret, filmed at Shepperton and starring Jude Law and Sir Ben Kingsley, to programme four themed double bills. Port Eliot, at St Germans, began as a small books event in 2003 and now includes music, food, fashion, art, a flower show and comedy. This year will also include John Cooper Clarke presenting a masterclass on writing limericks. All Scorsese’s film choices are vintage. He is a passionate film historian and has worked with the British Film Institute (BFI) to secure the prints for his season. Heather Stewart, creative director of the BFI, said his season matches its mission of getting archive film out to new and broad audiences. She said: “The interaction of these forms and the mix in such an inspiring setting will be a great experience for the festivalgoers and artists alike.” On successive nights Scorsese has chosen films which appear on many lists of the greatest of all time, including Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard (1963), matched with Jean Renoir’s The River (1951) for his literary adaptations night. Michael Powell’s ravishing ballet movie, The Red Shoes (1948), starring the glorious Moira Shearer, which is apparently his favourite film, is matched with All About Eve (1950) for his musical theme. He has not chosen any of his own films, but that gap will be filled by discussions of his work chaired by the film writer Tom Shone. “Getting Scorsese to do something for this tiny corner of Cornwall is truly fantastic,” Cathy St Germans, co-founder of the festival, said. “We did it the way we got Sarah Waters to come here and many others – we wrote him a nice proper letter, and he said yes.” Scorsese has yet to visit the beautiful estate and the house which claims to be the oldest continuously inhabited in the country, the home for centuries of the St Germans family, but will be pleased to discover he can come by train. When a 19th century earl allowed the railway to cross his lands, the payback was one of the prettiest railway stations in the country, right at his gate, and unlike many quaint vintage stations, still in daily use. “He hasn’t said he’s not coming, so we very much hope he will – if he does we know he will just fall in love with the place as everyone does.” The contact with Scorsese came through his long-term colleague, the British costume designer Sandy Powell, who was nominated for an Oscar for her astounding costumes for Gangs of New York, and won one for The Aviator. She came first to the festival as a visitor, and returned last year as a performer, presenting a show-and-tell session which included her Oscar statuette – at the special request of Lord St Germans. The festival organisers are working hard to create an environment which lives up to Scorsese’s vision: the Paradiso will have a cocktail bar in an Airstream campervan, some seats in cardboard Cadillacs designed by the Ballet Rambert designer Michael Howells, and will also be serving hot chocolate and providing blankets and umbrellas just in case. “The idea of a cinema by the river came last year when I was lying on the grass one night at last year’s festival. It felt like the first time I’d lain down in days – and I thought what I’d really like now is to watch a lovely movie, right here, without having to move,” Cathy St Germans said. The Director’s Cut: Michael Scorsese’s Open Air Film Festival Trains Murder on the Orient Express/North by Northwest Books The Leopard/The River Noir The Narrow Margin/Human Desire Musicals The Red Shoes/All About Eve Martin Scorsese Film industry Sidney Lumet Festivals Maev Kennedy guardian.co.uk
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Troops reportedly open fire on anti-regime demonstrators as protests spread from Syria’s south to Damascus and Aleppo Demonstrations in the Syrian capital, Damascus, and elsewhere were met with force as security forces struggled to contain unrest that had begun in the southern city of Deraa a week ago. Thousands once again joined funeral processions in Deraa on Friday, chanting: “Deraa people are hungry, we want freedom.” Hundreds took to the streets in the cities of Homs, Hama, Tel and Latakia and in towns surrounding Deraa, with smaller protests in the major cities of Damascus and Aleppo, which are more firmly under the watch of security forces. Troops reportedly opened fire in some cases. Protests in the capital are rare and not tolerated by the Ba’athist regime. A witness told the Guardian that efforts at protests in Damascus were broken up by plain-clothed agents using batons. By nightfall, a counter-demonstration had been mounted near the historic Umayyad mosque in the heart of the capital. Brief clashes were reported between anti-regime demonstrators and loyalists. A large rally then began in support of President Bashar al-Assad. Hundreds drove around the capital beeping horns and waving flags, whilst posters of the president were put up in the city. The violence in Syria came after the government had pledged on Thursday to look into reforms. But activists using the Syrian Revolution Facebook page had called for a day of solidarity with Deraa, where according to unofficial reports at least 44 have been killed in the past week. In the past, many young Syrians had been willing to overlook corruption, a lack of freedom and the slow pace of reforms in return for what they have seen as dignified leadership brought about by Assad’s anti-Western foreign policy. He has also had a youthful appeal. Both appear to now be wearing thin. “Regimes become really weak when their image turns to brutality. The killings in Deraa have done that,” said Ziad Malki, an activist living in exile in Switzerland. “The Syrian people want more now.” Others agreed that a turning point had been reached. “Syrians [normally] never come out to protests. This shows how the killings, the worthless reforms announced yesterday and the government propaganda is insulting and is only making us angrier,” said a 32-year-old man. The protests and revolts across the Arab world continued elsewhere in Jordan, Bahrain and Yemen. In Amman, one person was killed and more than 100 wounded when pro-government loyalists attacked a weekly pro-reform vigil in the heart of the Jordanian capital. The clashes were broken up by riot police. The violence was the first of its kind in Jordan in more than two months of protests which have seen the king sack his cabinet and pledge reforms. Islamic Action Front leader Hamza Mansour, whose party leads Jordan’s nascent opposition, said one of its members, Khairi Jamil Saeed, 26, was killed by being beaten by police. “This is an atrocious crime and we blame it on prime minister Marouf al-Bakhit and his cabinet,” Mansour told the Associated Press. “The prime minister and the cabinet must resign.” In Yemen, President Ali Abdullah Saleh said that he was willing to relinquish power but not unconditionally. “We are prepared to give up power but only to good, capable hands, not to malicious forces who conspire against the homeland,” said Saleh after calling on young people leading protests against him to establish a political party and deliver a roadmap for Yemen’s future. Striking a defiant pose, Saleh attacked those he claims are “conspiring against him”, calling them Houthis – an armed clan demanding autonomy in north Yemen – and drug dealers. A few miles away, anti-government protesters staged their biggest pro-democracy rally since unrest broke out five months ago, in what they called the Friday of Departure. Tens of thousands knelt in neat rows for a mass prayer ceremony as a weeping imam demanded: “Why do you kill us Ali? Why?” A week ago, 53 protesters were killed at the spot by plain-clothed government loyalists firing from the roofs of nearby houses. In the Bahrain capital, Manama, riot police fired teargas at demonstrators who defied a ban on public gatherings and staged a rally in the Shia suburb of Duraz. At least 20 people have been killed in a two-month uprising led by a disaffected Shia majority against the Gulf island’s Sunni rulers. Katherine Marsh is a pseudonym for a journalist living in Damascus Syria Yemen Middle East Protest Tom Finn Martin Chulov guardian.co.uk
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Yesterday’s 6.8 earthquake in Burma killed at least 120 people, according to Red Cross officials, and that number is expected to rise. The official government death toll is 74, with 111 injured, Time notes. Initial reports stated the country was hit with two earthquakes moments apart, but USGS has…
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Despite what you may think, the iPad 2’s thinner glass screen doesn’t make it more fragile than the iPad 1’s. In fact, its thinness offers a level of flexibility that soundly trumps its predecessor, according to a stress test by repair site iFixyouri. We’ll likely see other manufacturers offering ultra-thin glass screens as well. Glass is among the heaviest elements of a mobile device, so being able… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : VentureBeat Discovery Date : 25/03/2011 02:01 Number of articles : 7
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Interactive apps are a bad idea that keeps children from the written word, says best-selling writer The bestselling children’s author Julia Donaldson, whose signature rhyming picture books dominate top 10 lists, has revealed that she vetoed an ebook version of her most famous title, The Gruffalo, because she thinks interactive book apps for children are a bad idea. “I actually really don’t like it for children’s books,” she said on the phone from her home in Glasgow. “I think there are lots of pros to ebooks but I don’t feel we have to be controlled by technology and I don’t feel we should say, ‘Oh, that’s the way things are going, that’s the future, let’s do it.’ I think it would be great if there were lots of ebooks but there were also quite a lot of titles not available as ebooks. I feel if everyone just says yes to there being an ebook of everything, there is a danger they could take over.” The UK market for children’s ebooks and book-based apps is in its early stages, but Donaldson’s comments will resonate because of her high profile, and sales worth £10m last year. Eight of the top 10 children’s picture books in 2010 were by Donaldson and illustrators Axel Scheffler and Lydia Monks. Liz Thomson, editor of the website BookBrunch, says others share Donaldson’s doubts: “There’s a lot of stuff at the moment that we’re doing because we can. It’s a question of whether you can really add value to the story. If you can, then it’s fun, and there is some really creative stuff going on, but certainly ebooks seem to me not so cosy, that there’s a feeling of curling up with a book that you can’t replicate, however good the technology.” Donaldson was speaking on the eve of the Bologna book fair, which opens on Monday and where her publishers will be selling foreign rights to a clutch of new books including The Highway Rat with Axel Scheffler, who drew The Gruffalo. She says she does not know who owns the rights to develop her work for new digital applications. “I’d have to look at my contract – it could be that I haven’t even got the right to say that, and my publishers are just respecting my feelings and not pushing me in a direction I don’t want to go in. I’d have to check the small print.” Several years ago Donaldson worked on an interactive CD to go with Room on the Broom, and she writes an original song to go on every audiobook with her husband, Malcolm. Last month her publisher issued a special ebook edition of the Gruffalo Song Book for Comic Relief, and they have also produced ebooks of her books for older children. She sees the practical advantages of digital publishing in terms of portability and storage. But she feels that time spent reading books is valuable, and that we spend much of our lives plugged into screens and headphones already. “The publishers showed me an ebook of Alice in Wonderland. They said, ‘Look, you can press buttons and do this and that’, and they showed me the page where Alice’s neck gets longer. There’s a button the child can press to make the neck stretch, and I thought, well, if the child’s doing that, they are not going to be listening or reading, ‘I wish my cat Dinah was here’ or whatever it says in the text – they’re just going to be fiddling with this wretched button.” She compares the onrush of digital technology to the abolition of the net book agreement, which resulted in massive discounting of popular titles by supermarkets and a decline in writers’ royalties. “I think it would be good if a few people like me spiked the future, punctured it a bit, so that people could say that with all their advantages, you couldn’t get every single book there is as an ebook and that would encourage people to buy proper books.” Kate Wilson, who published The Gruffalo at PanMacmillan back in 1999 and now runs her own company Nosy Crow producing a mixture of books and apps for children, says: “You judge a medium that is right for the work. I can completely understand why someone like Julia, who crafts every one of those words, doesn’t want the rhythm interrupted by interactivity.” But she says people will quickly tire of apps that are not interactive: “If parents and children are moving towards screens, I feel really profoundly that it is our responsibility as publishers to provide really compelling reading experiences that are at least as interesting as games. I think it’s luddite and refusenik not to embrace where your readers are going. “We can’t be a worthy antique as an industry – we have to go where people are. If we turn our backs on that, other people will fill the space, and they won’t be people who’ve had 25 years’ experience writing, illustrating and publishing the best children’s books.” Children’s favourites in 2010 1 The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson 2 The Gruffalo’s Child Julia Donaldson 3 Thomas to the Rescue: Thomas & Friends (Based on Rev W Awdry character) 4 What the Ladybird Heard Julia Donaldson 5 Stick Man Julia Donaldson 6 Zog Julia Donaldson 7 Room on the Broom Julia Donaldson 8 The Snail and the Whale Julia Donaldson 9 Peppa Pig: Little Library (various) 10. The Princess and the Wizard Julia Donaldson *TCM chart of best-selling children’s picture books in UK, 2010 Children’s books: 7 and under Children and teenagers Susanna Rustin guardian.co.uk
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Two weeks after an earthquake and tsunami triggered a crisis at a nuclear plant, the facility is still not under control, and the government said Friday there is a suspected breach at a reactor. (March 25)
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